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Eat Your Way to A Good Night’s Sleep

Eat Your Way to A Good Night’s Sleep
I’m sure you know the feeling after a poor night’s sleep. The reasons to get enough and good quality sleep benefits not only your ability to function the next day but decreases your risk of many diseases such as heart disease and helps maintain a healthy weight. You may know about setting the environment for…
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How to Save Your Health If You Are A Night Shift Worker

How to Save Your Health If You Are A Night Shift Worker
If you are a shift worker, you most likely understand the effects of being awake when your body clock says you should be asleep. The impact of working against your natural body clock does not only feel less than optimal but can have a negative impact on your health. You are up to 40% greater…
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How Does Your Meal Kit Delivery Service Stack Up?

How Does Your Meal Kit Delivery Service Stack Up?
You may be one of the many who have or are using a meal kit service to save time, but are you saving your health too? A recent study has found the answers and the results come with both good and bad news. What was investigated: 12 recipes from four weekly boxes of three meals…
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7 Ways To Keep Your Hormones On Your Side

7 Ways To Keep Your Hormones On Your Side
Hormones help to regulate many functions in your body and are vital for your health. Hormones change as we age as well as in response to external influences like stress. Hormones are also vital for your body to function optimally like maintaining a healthy weight and allowing the calcium to be absorbed into your bones.…
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A Gene Sequence Which Determines If Coffee Is Good for Your Heart

A Gene Sequence Which Determines If Coffee Is Good for Your Heart
A gene sequence may be the answer to the debated topic whether coffee is healthful or harmful for your heart. Those with the sequence on gene CYP1A2*1F are not able to remove the caffeine quickly from their body while those with the sequence CYP1A2*1A are rapid metabolizers of caffeine. A study found that those who…
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4 Good Reasons to Get Back in Your Kitchen

4 Good Reasons to Get Back in Your Kitchen
With the ability to deliver fast food pretty much anywhere at any time you may wonder why bother using your kitchen at all? Here are four good reasons to keep cooking a part of your lifestyle: Cost. You do pay for convenience and cooking at home will save you money. Saving can increase further if…
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Gym Goers Take Advantage of this Performance Enhancer

Gym Goers Take Advantage of this Performance Enhancer
If you exercise at the gym for 20-70 minutes at a time you will want to read this. Endurance exercise is meant to make you feel puffed, get your breathing rate up and make you feel hotter, but did you know rinsing your mouth with peppermint can help reduce these symptoms during exercising? Unfortunately for…
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Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies

Immediate Benefits of Eating your Veggies
Let’s face it, it can be difficult to eat enough veggies a day to look after your health. The desire to get through the last few brussel sprouts, kale or broccoli can be low if the consequence of eating them is going to be seen in many years to come. Good news is recent studies…
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